AfriGeneas Slave Research Forum

Her actual name is Maria Catherine Dodd Effinger.
She was born in 1814 in the Shenadoah, Virginia. She was the wife of William Massie. William was born in 1789 in Frederick, Maryland, and moved to Massies Mill, with his wife and family.

Mariah Catherine died in 1889, in Roseland, Nelson, Virginia.

She inherited the slaves, of the Coleman, Gaines, and (black Thompson) families, from her husband. In fact, one of our Thompson relatives, lived with her, as her servant, until Mariah Catherine died.

Her name was Fannie Thompson, born in 1864. Fannie was the sister of George Thompson, who married into the Fleming family.